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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by bluGill on Thursday July 13, 2017 @12:54PM (#14762886)
Insurance against what? Lets assume a self supporting mars colony today, and that the asteroid hits earth tomorrow making humans extinct. Will the mars colony get off mars in time to avoid their asteroid? It seems to me that we need to get to a few earth like planets before we can assume survival.
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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by HarkMamilton on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:10PM (#14763043)
Sure, so we'd better get started.
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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by ythn on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:06PM (#14763003)
The assumption is that we will somehow "terraform" Mars so that it will be earthlike before Earth is destroyed.
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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by srtjstjsj on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:15PM (#14763088)
why would martian life survive the destruction of earth from extraplanetary impact, which would affect martian orbit?
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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by freeflight on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:11PM (#14763699)
Mars is only the spearhead for further stellar and maybe even interstellar colonization, after all, we gotta start somewhere don't we? Once we manage to do Mars, by gaining knowledge, developing technologies and maybe even discovering new resources, we can hedge humanities survival further by applying this experience to colonizing other places in space.
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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by AshleyGrant on Thursday July 13, 2017 @04:51PM (#14765103)
How would that affect Mars's orbit? The remains of the Earth will keep on orbiting the Sun.
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Re:NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on... by solarengineer on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:48PM (#14763452)
Indeed. We'd have to start somewhere, though.
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